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Three new world events

Three new world events join the rotation: the Drowned Galleon, the Golden Gourd and the Midnight Vault. Every event now gives twice the XP and twice what you gather, and you can join one that has already started.

An adventurer at a sea chest under the Drowned Galleon, another at a golden seedling before the Golden Gourd, and a third at a strongbox before the Midnight Vault

Three new events

  • The Drowned Galleon: a Diving event in the Galleon Deep, where a great galleon lies on the sea floor. Dig out your own sea chest of its cargo and prise it open, and its gold rises to the hold being burst. Five holds, then the strongroom doors blow open in a column of gold.
  • The Golden Gourd: a Farming event on Harvest Hill. Tend your own golden seedling with the can, the rake and the trowel, and each round its pod flies into a gourd the size of a house. Five blooms, then the gourd opens like a flower.
  • The Midnight Vault: a Thieving event in the Gilded Plaza at midnight. Pick the lock of your own strongbox, and a bolt of light runs round the vault into the seal being broken. Five seals, then the door swings open on the hoard under fireworks.
  • Everyone together: everyone there works a seedling, strongbox or chest of their own, and you see what each of them sends fly into the giant. At the end everyone still there sends one last gift at once.
  • At your own best: you work at your own best dive, your own best crop or your own best mark, as your levels and kit stand when it starts.
  • Seven events: there are seven events now, one every two hours as before. Each new one has its own keepsake, its own title at a hundred, and a companion to find: the Coinshell, the Gourdling and the Lockling.

Joining late

  • Join after the start: an event that has started can still be joined, until its last stage starts. Its chest pays only for the stages you are there for, so joining late means a smaller chest.

Twice the XP

  • Every event: all seven events give twice the XP they did while you work at them: the Great Oak, the Fallen Star, the Moonpool, the Ember Matron and the three new ones.

A bigger chest

  • Twice what you gather: while you work an event you gather what you would at your own best, and its chest gives you as much again: the logs, ore, fish, goods or gold your own work brought in. At the Great Oak they are logs of your best few trees, not only the best one.
  • Twice the tokens: 10 Crossing tokens for each stage instead of 5, so 50 for a whole event.
  • Bigger gifts: each gift is twice what it was: two bird’s nests, two gems, two sealed salvage chests.

The token trader

  • Resource crates: a resource crate for 50 tokens holds 8 piles of your own resources rolled at random: logs, ore, fish, crops and salvage, and now and then a gem.
  • Bank spaces: buy bank spaces of your own with tokens, from 60 tokens and a little dearer each time, up to 25.
  • A richer Crossing chest: the Crossing chest from the trader holds a gift of every event, twice the resources, and twice the chance of a bank space.

Balance and content change often during the alpha. All patch notes